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In fact, modern players of orchestral instruments do this all the time.
Modern >bowed string players tune their open strings to perfect (i.e. not
equal) 5ths. They >do their darnedest to play any fingered fourth or
fifth as a perfect fifth as well, >but this doesn't mean that they play in
Pythagorean system. Wind instruments >can also raise or lower pitches
depending on the context. Harpists, too, will >adjust some strings if
needed. Only the pianists are stuck with what they get >from the tuners.
But even most professional tuners have their own idiosyncratic >version of
ET.
This doesn't invalidate the idea, though.
Exactly.
RT
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